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Monday, January 20, 2014
Progressive Tax Code Not Visible in Tax Expenditures
By NCPA @ 2:46 PM :: 6330 Views :: National News, Tax Credits, Taxes

...high-income and low-income filers had large tax expenditures, while middle-income taxpayers had smaller expenditures....

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Sunday, January 19, 2014
Bumble Bee CEO to Faleomavaega: You’re a Liar
By Selected News Articles @ 2:00 AM :: 9545 Views :: National News, World News, Labor

Bumble Bee chief executive Chris Lischewski has called untrue the Delegate’s assertion that Bumble Bee tuna is processed by child labor....

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Friday, January 17, 2014
OMB: $101B Spent on Incorrect Federal Payments Each Year
By NCPA @ 2:34 PM :: 5389 Views :: National News, Health Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....

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Friday, January 17, 2014
Why Did the Benghazi Story Change?
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:23 PM :: 7883 Views :: National News, World News, Military

An explosive intelligence report made public this week revealed that officials knew it was a terrorist attack that killed four Americans on September 11, 2012—and they knew right away....

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Thursday, January 16, 2014
How Congress Gets Away with Spending THIS Much Money
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3918 Views :: National News

The relatively small, district-level pork projects are dwarfed, however, by the entitlement programs that are actually sucking away our money year after year....

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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Omnibus Laden With $744M Federal Pork for Hawaii
By News Release @ 5:18 AM :: 6534 Views :: National News, Hawaii State Government

... more than $744 million directly for Hawaii projects ....

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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Faleomavaega Video Raises More Questions than Answers
By Selected News Articles @ 5:06 AM :: 5896 Views :: National News, Politicians
Faleomavaega issued a news release Monday to accompany a copy of a 30-second video Christmas greeting he provided KVZK-TV during the holidays. In his statement he blasted Samoa News for not publishing earlier releases ....
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Government Failures Congress Wants You to Fund This Year
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:02 PM :: 3816 Views :: National News

Here are a few big failures that need to be eliminated or seriously reformed—but instead are getting millions (or billions) of dollars....

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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Index of Economic Freedom: US Drops to 12th
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4168 Views :: National News
When President Obama took office, the U.S. was ranked 6th. Now it is 12th.
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Monday, January 13, 2014
More Local Media Fraud on Faleomavaega?
By Selected News Articles @ 7:47 PM :: 7187 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation

We thought the media had turned the corner on the issue of how to handle the disappearance of Faleomavaega....

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Saturday, January 11, 2014
Washington Correspondent Breaks Faleomavaega Illness Story
By Selected News Articles @ 1:34 PM :: 6286 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation

...the first newsperson in Washington, D.C. to address the question of Eni Faleomavaega’s prolonged absence from the Nation’s Capital....

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Friday, January 10, 2014
Tuna War: Congratulations, Samoa News
By Selected News Articles @ 2:06 PM :: 6835 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

Yesterday we called on the media to take seriously the tuna content issue being fought out in the Farm Bill in Congress and Samoa News led with a page one story today....

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Friday, January 10, 2014
Members of Congress Won't Read This Bill
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:20 AM :: 4351 Views :: National News

Any day now, Congress is likely to release the trillion-dollar Trojan horse that is the spending bill for 2014....

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Will Minimum Wage Legislation Wreck American Samoa Economy Again?
By Selected News Articles @ 5:30 PM :: 7197 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation, Labor

Faleomavaega got caught napping in 2007 and by the time he raced back to Washington in an effort to get us extricated, it was too late....

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Report: Am Samoa Governor Prepares to Replace Faleomavaega
By Andrew Walden @ 3:09 PM :: 4466 Views :: National News

Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the only candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is an assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....

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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
How to Fight Poverty -- and Win
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:37 PM :: 4035 Views :: National News

President Johnson launched the War on Poverty on Jan. 8, 1964....

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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Congress Back in Session: Faleomavaega a No Show
By Selected News Articles @ 8:51 PM :: 6687 Views :: National News, Congressional Delegation

...at last local radio station 93KHJ-FM has published a breakthrough article today on its talanei.com website asking about the delegate’s health....

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Monday, January 6, 2014
The National Debt in One Picture
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:26 PM :: 3879 Views :: National News

Congress is beginning its new year with a budget deal that busts right through “caps” it was supposed to have on spending....

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014
The Left's Big Issue for 2014
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:42 PM :: 4698 Views :: National News

The liberal Center for American Progress launched a new center devoted to the subject, and President Obama has been making it a centerpiece of his speeches....

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Monday, December 30, 2013
Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:28 PM :: 4433 Views :: National News

The cupboard is overflowing with liquor, crystal glassware, and more....

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Saturday, December 28, 2013
Samoa News Continues to Deceive Public on Faleomavaega; credibility sinking
By Selected News Articles @ 6:01 PM :: 9461 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Congressional Delegation, Politicians

We had hoped our common sense prescriptions on how to handle questionable statements emanating from the office of Delegate Faleomavaega would have proved persuasive to Samoa News but apparently not....

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Friday, December 27, 2013
Your Money in Pictures: The Top 5 Charts of 2013
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:55 AM :: 4838 Views :: National News

What If a Typical Family Spent Money Like the Federal Government? ....

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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Flood Insurance: Sharpening the Government's Blurry Maps
By Selected News Articles @ 1:58 PM :: 7643 Views :: National News, Land Use, Cost of Living

FEMA's maps govern whether home and business owners are required to buy flood insurance....

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013
8 Americans to Remember This Christmas
By Heritage Foundation @ 10:21 AM :: 5716 Views :: National News

While most of us are gathering with loved ones, there are Americans being held prisoner in repressive countries around the world....

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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Succession Plan Quietly Underway for Faleomavaega Seat?
By Selected News Articles @ 3:22 AM :: 7578 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

...Tuā’au Kereti Māta’utia, Jr., the first candidate to announce for Faleomavaega's seat, is assistant senior policy adviser to the Governor....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Christmas vacation: Obamas get trip to Hawaii, taxpayers get ‘jelly-of-the-month’ club
By Malia Zimmerman @ 2:00 PM :: 5625 Views :: National News

...The president and his friends pay rent for the 17-day trip, about $25,000 per week.  Taxpayers pay for most everything else, about $4 million....

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
What the Government Got You This Year (in Pictures)
By Heritage Foundation @ 1:32 PM :: 4182 Views :: National News

Today, the Senate is set to pass the new U.S. budget deal in all its spend-tastic glory....

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Samoa Reporter Accidentally Admits Coverup: Missing Congressman Found "Convalescing in Utah"
By Andrew Walden @ 11:25 PM :: 11402 Views :: National News, Ethics, First Amendment, Politicians

...American Samoa Congressional Delegate Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr has been found...

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Am Samoa: Talanei Perpetuating Faleomavaega Fraud?
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 10746 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

...the public is increasingly asking questions about his lengthy, apparent disappearance from public view....

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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Samoa News finally raises questions about Faleomavaega
By Selected News Articles @ 1:38 AM :: 7714 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

Samoa News deserves credit for publishing a story in today's paper about the virtual disappearance of our delegate to Congress....

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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Rep Faleomavaega a No-Show Again
By Selected News Articles @ 5:13 PM :: 7401 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

No reasons were given for his absence and he is still listed on the Committee's website as Ranking Member of the subcommittee....

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Thursday, December 12, 2013
The More You Buy, the More You Save
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:40 PM :: 4397 Views :: National News

Some Members of Congress are using this logic in their latest budget proposal.... 

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
3 Things You Need to Know About the Congressional Budget Deal
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:56 AM :: 3885 Views :: National News

Many had high hopes that the first budget conference in four years would make a substantial down payment toward fixing the U.S. spending and debt crisis.....

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
UPDATE: Faleomavaega a "no show" at event; Remarks delivered for him
By Selected News Articles @ 9:32 PM :: 7382 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

We will be watching via internet to see if he shows up at his subcommittee session tomorrow....

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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
An Unlimited Christmas Credit Card
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:05 PM :: 3946 Views :: National News
What if you had no spending limits this holiday season?
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Am Samoa: Faleomavaega back in action?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:38 PM :: 4754 Views :: National News

...there has been a virtual blackout of news coverage....

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Saturday, December 7, 2013
Undoing the Past
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:03 PM :: 5147 Views :: National News

This week marked the 80th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition.....

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Monday, December 2, 2013
Supreme Court Declines to hear Online Sales Tax Case
By Selected News Articles @ 12:41 PM :: 4859 Views :: National News, Taxes

The law is a complicated one, made so in an effort to get around the Supreme Court’s past rulings that states could not require sales tax collection by a company if that company is not physically present in the state....

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Monday, December 2, 2013
Beware of Happy Talk on Immigration
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:42 AM :: 3787 Views :: National News
Is immigration reform coming back from the dead?
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Black Friday Spending Spree (in Washington)
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:28 AM :: 5505 Views :: National News, Taxes

...members of the budget conference committee are considering several options that could increase spending by up to an additional $100 billion....

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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Am Samoa: Coverup on Rep Faleomavaega Health Questions?
By Selected News Articles @ 4:07 PM :: 8339 Views :: Democratic Party, National News, Politicians

It has been almost a month now since Delegate Faleomavaega was stricken with some unrevealed ailment after arriving on an evening flight from Honolulu to Pago Pago....

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Friday, November 22, 2013
They Got Away With It
By Heritage Foundation @ 9:39 AM :: 4627 Views :: National News

"...my colleagues propose this rule change because they can get away with it...." -- Sen Barack Obama

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Thursday, November 21, 2013
While Obama Remakes the Courts, Harry Reid Wants to Remake the Senate
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:14 PM :: 3752 Views :: National News

"Everyone in this chamber knows that if the majority chooses to end the filibuster—if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate—then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse." -- Sen Barack Obama, 2005

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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Is Our Government Still "Of the People"?
By Heritage Foundation @ 12:45 PM :: 4513 Views :: National News
Seven score and 10 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered the greatest speech in American history....
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Congress Should Do These 3 Things in the Next 31 Days
By Heritage Foundation @ 11:49 AM :: 3945 Views :: National News

In the next 31 days—starting today—the budget conference committee will try to accomplish something Congress has failed to do for the past four years....

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Friday, November 8, 2013
U.S. Sugar Policy Sends Candy Makers Abroad
By NCPA @ 10:06 AM :: 8027 Views :: National News, Agriculture, Small Business, Cost of Living

U.S. candy makers are expanding production in other countries as federal price supports and a global glut of the sweet stuff give an ever-greater advantage to foreign rivals....

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Friday, November 1, 2013
FCC Announces $1M for Hawaiian Tel Rural Broadband on Big Island
By News Release @ 5:17 AM :: 5336 Views :: National News, Ethics

And the money didn't go to Sandwich Isles Communications!

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Monday, October 28, 2013
From One Obamacare to Another
By Heritage Foundation @ 6:48 AM :: 4887 Views :: National News

Obama is now back to beating the broken drum on amnesty....

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Monday, October 21, 2013
$17,000,000,000,000
By Heritage Foundation @ 2:33 PM :: 4841 Views :: National News

President Obama boasted last week that he had signed legislation to lift “the twin threats” to our economy....

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Saturday, October 19, 2013
Pew: Five States Which Paid to Keep National Parks, Monuments Open
By Selected News Articles @ 8:22 PM :: 9232 Views :: National News, Hawaii Statistics, Military, Tourism

Visitors spend about $76 million a day in communities near national parks, the National Park Service estimated....

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